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...Lone bright spot in the steel business last week was the increased demand for tinplate wherewith to can drought-stricken beasts. Rut darkest spot in all commodities was the price of hides, down from 6½¢ per lb. to 3½¢ in the past week, or 15% in six trading days, because the market was glutted by Government slaughtering. After strenuous protest from tanners, RFC last week agreed to advance $10,000,000 to hold surplus hides off the market until demand increases or they can be dumped abroad...
...Wherewith, he fell upon his children land demolished all save a few, who fled back into the sea, content with their portion of it forevermore...
Typical of the window dressing methods which have been brought to such a high degree of perfection by the wily Schacht in convincing Germany's creditors of here incipient bankruptcy, is the old reliable plea of a dearth of god wherewith to pay off the adverse balance of trade which is claimed as the root of her financial troubles. Now, no one can deny that Germany, so far as her export situation is concerned, is really in a bad way; but this is the ostensible reason, loud-pedalled mainly for foreign consumption, for her lack of the yellow metal...
Last week Dr. Samuel Lubash of Manhattan announced* another kind of internal sun-lamp wherewith he can penetrate the bladder and ureter into the kidney and treat tuberculosis anywhere along the drainage system...
Somehow or other the little boy who is such a humdinger at marbles must let the other little boys have marbles wherewith to play, thinks Banker Wiggin. On the defensive last week he snapped: "Normal business conditions will not prevail in the United States until there is purchasing power in Europe." He urged immediate U. S. extension of more credit to European nations, as recommended by his committee...